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Buddhism: A Beginners Guide Book For True Self Discovery and Living a Balanced and Peaceful Life:...
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Amazon Reviews for  Buddhism: A Beginners Guide Book For True Self Discovery and Living a Balanced and Peaceful Life: Learn To Live In The Now and Find Peace From Within - ... - Buddha / Buddhist Books By Sam Siv 1)
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65 Ratings
65 Reviews
("Ratings" vs. "Reviews")
54% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
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Fail Overall Grade
FAIL Rating Trend
FAIL Suspicious Reviewers
FAIL Reviewer Ease
FAIL Phrase Repetition
FAIL Overlapping Review History
WARN Deleted Reviews
WARN Incentivized Reviews
WARN Reviewer Participation
PASS Unverified Purchases
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Brand Repeats

Most Trusted Reviews

Loved the book. It has explained a lot about the ... [Go to full review]
Jun 29, 2015      
100% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.4)


Least Trusted Reviews

I truly loved this book. I always wondered what Buddhism ... [Go to full review]
Feb 7, 2016      
0% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Created on a high volume day
  • Admitted to receiving an incentive
  • Contains repetitive phrases (show)
  • Take-Back Reviewer (2 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 5.0)
  • Overlapping Review History: reviewed 1 of 9 top products
  • Overrepresented Participation (posted 22 Reviews)
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.6)


Analysis Details

Fail Rating Trend

  • 22%
  • Created over 4 days

We counted 65 reviews for this product over the span of 738 days, an average of 0.1 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 2 or fewer reviews on any given day.

However, we see the following 4 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 14 reviews were created on just 4 days. The reviews on these high volume days have rated this product an average of 5.0 while reviews from other days have rated this product an average of 4.7. Based on our statistical modeling, the discrepancy in average rating between these two groups is significant enough to believe that the difference is not due to random chance, and may indicate that there are unnatural reviews.

from reviews created on high volume days

from reviews created on normal volume days


5.0
4.7


Read more about our Rating Trend test.

Fail Suspicious Reviewers

Take-Back Reviewers


33 of the 65 reviewers have had at least one of their past reviews for another product deleted. This is an excessively large percentage of Take-Back Reviewers which may indicate unnatural reviews.

from take-back reviewers

from reviewers without previously deleted reviews


4.8
4.8


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Fail Reviewer Ease
The ease score is the average rating for all reviews that a given reviewer submits. The average ease score for reviewers of this product is 4.6, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.3. Based on our statistical modeling, the discrepancy in average rating between these two groups is significant enough to believe that the difference is not due to random chance, and may indicate that there are unnatural reviews.

4.6 Product's Average Ease Score

4.3 Category's Average Ease Score


4.6
4.3


Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.


Fail Phrase Repetition


35 of the 65 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.9 while reviews without substantial repetitive phrases rated this product an average of 4.6. Based on our statistical modeling, the discrepancy in average rating between these two groups is significant enough to believe that the difference is not due to random chance, and may indicate that there are unnatural reviews.

from reviews with substantial repetitive phrases

from reviews without substantial repetitive phrases


4.9
4.6


Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

Fail Overlapping Review History
Does not include products
from the same brand


22 of the 65 reviewers have substantial overlapping product review history. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.9 while the reviewers who have a more unique product review history rated this product an average of 4.7. Based on our statistical modeling, the discrepancy in average rating between these two groups is significant enough to believe that the difference is not due to random chance, and may indicate that there are unnatural reviews.

from reviewers with substantial overlapping history

from reviewers without a substantial overlapping history


4.9
4.7


Read more about our Overlapping Review History test.

Warn Deleted Reviews

We discovered a total of 1 deleted Review for this product, with an average rating of 5. Even though deleted reviews don't affect the average rating, the fact that action was taken to delete reviews raises some red flags about the integrity of the reviews for the product as whole.

There are a few limitations to keep in mind regarding the Deleted Reviews test:
  1. We don't have a magic ability to collect every single deleted review; we can only identify reviews as deleted if we collect them on one date and then notice they are no longer visible on a subsequent date.
  2. We have no information on reviews that were never published in the first place.
  3. We also don't know why these reviews were removed. It could be action from the platform, personal decision by the review author, part of an entire account closure, even some data error on our part, etc.
Read more about our Deleted Reviews test.

5.0 average rating of deleted reviews

5.0


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Warn Incentivized Reviews
On Oct 3, 2016, Amazon prohibited incentivized reviews, however we still test for them since there are still millions in our dataset.


23 of the 65 total reviews for this product admitted to receiving a free or discounted product in exchange for a review. This is an excessively large percentage of incentivized reviews which may indicate unnatural reviews.

from incentivized reviews

from non-incentivized reviews


4.7
4.8


Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.

Warn Reviewer Participation

  • 40%
  • From reviewers with an overrepresented participation

We see the following 1 participation group with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 26 reviewers (or 40%) are within an overrepresented participation group. While this is more reviews from overrepresented participation groups than we'd expect to see, these reviews do not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.

From reviewers with an overrepresented participation

From reviewers with a properly represented participation


4.7
4.8


Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.

Pass Unverified Purchases

14 of the 65 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.

from unverified purchasers

from verified purchases


4.8
4.8


Unverified purchases may be the result of Kindle Unlimited readers, buyers who didn't pay full price, or reviewers who did not purchase the product at Amazon. Read more about our Unverified Purchases test.

Pass Word Count Comparison

  • 0%
  • Have an overrepresented word count
We didn't find any review word count groups that had a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see in this category.
Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.

Pass Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters

We didn't detect a substantial amount of Brand Repeaters.